fullymartes

Updated: May 11, 2025

In Toulouse, whence now comes the best of this dainty of the epicure, the geese are crammed daily with a dough of corn meal mixed with the oil of poppies, fed through a tin funnel, which is introduced into the esophagus of the unhappy bird. At the end of a month the stertorous breathing of the victim proclaims the time of sacrifice to Apicius. Sir Anthony Fitzherbert calls them fullymartes.

- Roman Farm Management: The Treatises of Cato and Varro